From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   JTEM  posted:   
   > On 1/8/26 6:38 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   >   
   > > Zodiac killer was not the Steven?   
      
   That's right, it was not. Just so you know, it could   
   not possibly have been me.   
   >   
   > > Okay. All of these won't work in a zodiac style scenario.   
   > > Because, you can't apply future changes, like stamping   
   > > bullets, to bullets fired in the past. We need some sort   
   > > of advancement that can be retroactively applied, like DNA.   
   >   
   > Supposedly, and I'm not even going to bother with the Google   
   > because I definitely read about it, they can find DNA in the   
   > environment, even when the body has decayed. So maybe they'll   
   > be able to pull a suspects DNA from the environment?   
   >   
   > If they find the victim in a shallow grave, for instance, maybe   
   > they could collect the soil with the outmost care, preserve it   
   > and at some future point test it for DNA from the killer, whom   
   > one would presume was present.   
   >   
   > Supposedly they've even found DNA in rivers! Maybe they could   
   > move downstream, if they had an idea of how far they needed to   
   > go, collect water samples and at some future point look for   
   > human DNA they might match to a suspect...   
   >   
   > Yes. Environmental DNA. That might be a win.   
   >   
   > Something else they should have done more than 20 years ago:   
   >   
   > Decided that we "Bottom" 80 to 99% matter.   
   >   
   > So the idea is that they pay everyone $1 thousand to donate   
   > a DNA sample to a government data base. This will be used   
   > for research, of course, but better still it will be used to   
   > solve crimes!   
   >   
   >     ...so let's say that my brother kills someone and decides   
   > that donating DNA would be a stupid thing to do. Still, he   
   > has brothers, sons... a daughter... cousins...   
   >   
   > If any of us take the cash, donate the sample then we're   
   > going to come up as close to that killer. They could find my   
   > brother indirectly!   
   >   
   > And this could be retroactively applied.   
   >   
   > In other words, a DNA sample is retrieved but there's no   
   > matches. Then after the government decides we're humans and   
   > could too, they check it against this MASSIVE database and   
   > suddenly they can find the suspect!   
      
   You know that actually happened in a California case   
   of an unsolved serial murderer from many years ago,   
   but they tied his DNA that he left behind to some   
   of his family members after they started doing the   
   DNA genealogy tests:   
      
   Headline: "The untold story of how the Golden State   
   Killer was found: A covert operation and private DNA"   
      
   https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-08/man-in-the-window   
   >   
   > The victim's hair, fibers & DNA:  It had to be left SOMEWHERE.   
   >   
   > Right?   
      
   Right!   
   >   
   > A car, hotel... where ever they'd been before they were   
   > murdered. AND THE KILLER'S AS WELL!   
   >   
   > BACTERIA? Or any other chemical/biological matter on the   
   > suspects clothes! Maybe the bacteria on people can be unique   
   > enough to at least exclude a suspect...   
      
   They found the guy when he was an old man, but at   
   least he will finish his life in prison where he   
   belongs.   
      
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